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Inhibiting a certain enzyme in cryptococcus may halt infection spread
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Inhibiting a certain enzyme in cryptococcus may halt infection spread

by  Stony Brook University A scanned electron microscopy of a cell of Cryptococcus neoformans showing the “hairs” within the fungal cell that cause disease. Credit: Jeehyun Karen You The last drug designed to more effectively treat dangerous systemic fungal infections, most often affecting immunocompromised patients, was developed over 20 years ago. Now an interdisciplinary team of...